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Show SENATE PASSES NARCOTIC BILL MEASURE PLACES RIGID RESTRICTIONS RE-STRICTIONS UPON SALE OF DRUGS IN UTAH. Governor Announces Opposition to Any Prohibition Bill Which Creates a Commissioner of Prohibition. Salt !ake City. -Debate as to whether the money to purchase trans port. it ion to l-ogan, where the members mem-bers of the state senate are going on Friday, February 2, to Inspect the State Agricultural college, should pome out of the educational funds, the contingent fund of the senate or out .if the senators' own pockets, enlivened enliv-ened the proceedings of the senate on January 22. Senate bill No. 9, introduced hy Sen-tor Sen-tor Archibald Bevan and providing that narcotics shall not be sold In tftuh except upon pre -crlptlon, was finally passed and ordered transrnit-;ed transrnit-;ed to the house for Its consideration. Pales of the extent to which the drug peyote has enslaved the Indians of the t intih basin and reservations elsewhere else-where added Interest to Its discussion. discus-sion. Prohibition relegated routine matters mat-ters In the house to the background jn January 22, and even placed a dimmer dim-mer on the public utilities bill, which was introduced In the house by McKay Mc-Kay of Weber. The house had a big lay aver matters of party hedges and party concern The presentation of 4 gavel to Speaker Tolton hy the membership was a pleasing Incident in the afternoon of turmoil. The legislative reference committee commit-tee also got In work on a number of Ollls, but the standing committees of ihe house with oni exception did little lit-tle work. The crowd attending the lesslon was the largest of the session ses-sion In the galleries. Governor Bamberger on January 22 announced his opposition to any prohibition pro-hibition bill which creates a commissioner commis-sioner of prohibition und indicates lie would return such a bill to legislature. Tho house refused to amend the tdll to exclude sacramental wines Irom ti:e state, as moved by Hevan of Tooele and seconded by Mrs. Grace Stratton-Airey of Salt Lake. Suit Lake City. Prohibition was again the feature at the capltol on January 19. I Ichor J. Grant, president of the Betterment league, and John Henry fcJvans, secretary, give endorsement of the league to the Young state-wide prohibition bill. Much opposition was expressed at state house to the commissioner of prohibition feature on ground of expense. ex-pense. Those favoring the bill claim that 115,000 would cover the appropriation, while those opposed claim that $50,000 would be required. Many leaders in the Democratic party in the senate and the house are favorable to the 2 per cent alcohol clause of the Hoyden bill. A delegation of retail liquor dealers railed on (lovernor Bamberger and urged an extension of time 'or prohibition. prohi-bition. He said he would veto any bill which did not make August 1 ihe date for the law to become effective. The session of the state senate on January 19 broke the record of the present legislative term In the number num-ber of bills Introduced for consideration considera-tion and In point of brevity. Fifteen measures, varying greatly in importance import-ance and character, were presented and referred to the refience commit tee within tweuty minutes' time. Some of the most important measures meas-ures proposed in the senate were prepared pre-pared at the Instigation and under the supervision of the League of .Municipalities .Munici-palities of I'tah. Among many things of perhaps lesser Importance, they called for the creation Of a park commission, com-mission, a widening of the appropriation appropria-tion powers of the city commission, the fixing of tho city treasurer's bond, the apportionment of the expenses of asesslng and collecting taxes, giving the municipality Jurisdiction over land, etc., to the source of its water supply, the rendering of tho board cf education educa-tion liable to special taxation and special spe-cial assessments, and the making of the water tax, or rental, a lien upon the property. The house passed the bill amending the garnishment law so that the same ct of facts are required to garnishee as to attach. The house declined to adjourn over Saturday, deciding to meet at I o'clock on Saturday. The chiropractic bill was Intro (luced January 19 by Argyle of Utah and Bywater of Salt Lake Introduced the bill he had prepared abolishing capital , punishment in this state. Other 'lllfl und resolutions were introduced. in-troduced. Including those extending the terms of sheriffs and the preventing prevent-ing of combinations in dairy and egg business. , Leading Ileum. 'i. in ihe house and senate expert to be '..vin to prepare a bill to create a hoard' of control to take charm' of all of the social Ipetitll tfons in the state ami that part of the stale's educational Institutions which rotate to buildings, repairs and supplies. sup-plies. Under the provlslous of the Initiative and referendum bill drawn by the Democratic caucus It will require widespread wide-spread agitation before elections can be culled The bill Is practically the ame as that Introduced by Dan B. Shields at tin? list Means, |